Integrating IM applications - OFI

[Ikke]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:02 +0100, Igor Popik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to present OFI project - org.freedesktop.IM interface 
> proposal for Instant Messenging applications which uses D-BUS as a 
> communication platform. Everybody knows that *nix has a great number of 
> different IM desktop applications with support of different IM protocols 
> - but there is lack of integration with other desktop components (web 
> browsers, mail apps).
> 
> The goal of OFI is to provide interface standarization not a complex 
> solution (however sample implementation and library is provided).
> 
> This only a proposal of interface standard. It is simple, but It is 
> working: we managed to to implement it in Gossip, Mozilla and GNOME and 
> our IM app GNU Gadu - http://www.gnugadu.org.
> 
> We are aware of Galago project. But in our opinion such integration 
> should be done in ligth-weight manner :-)
> 
> Some links:
> 
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ - Project page
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ README.OFI - document describing the thing, 
> please read it before you will flame us :-)
> 
> Some code:
> svn co svn://svn.hakore.com/ofi
> http://ofi.hakore.com/ofi-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Cheers,
> THrull

Actually, stuff like this would be handled by DAL/whatever too

Ikke